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STOCKTON - What to get the San Francisco 49ers fan who has everything for Super Bowl XLVII?

Bob Highfill

STOCKTON - What to get the San Francisco 49ers fan who has everything for Super Bowl XLVII?

How about the team's logo spray-painted on their lawn?

Randolph Phillips, who recently moved to Stockton from Los Angeles, has painted the 49ers logo on his lawn and the lawns of nearly a dozen other diehards stretching from Yuba City to Modesto. Among the canvases he's adorned is the lawn of Stockton resident and lifelong 49ers fan Brandon Lee.

"I thought maybe he'd use stencils or tracing or something like that, but he did it all freehand. That's what made it more amazing," said Lee, 27, whose mother saw Phillips' lawn logo on Facebook and contacted her son, believing he would like one on his lawn. "I was really shocked. I love it."

For $100, Phillips spray-painted the 49ers' red-and-gold logo and the words "Quest for Six" on Lee's lawn. The 49ers are playing for their sixth Super Bowl title against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday at the Superdome in New Orleans. Kickoff is at approximately 3:30 p.m.

"Quest for Six," the team's slogan during the playoffs, was written on red towels that fans received at Candlestick Park during the divisional playoff game against Green Bay. Lee, a 49ers season ticket holder, went to that game and gave the towel to Phillips to use as a guide.

"I'm self-taught," said Phillips, who never has worked professionally as an artist but said he has drawn since he could hold a pencil. "I have a passion to pick up things and draw. What I see, looking at a picture or something, I see in my mind. The first couple lawn logos I did, I used a photo. But after that, I didn't need it."

The spray paint is water-based and grows out of the lawn in a few weeks.

Phillips lived in New Orleans until he moved to Los Angeles about a year ago. When the Saints made it to the Super Bowl against the Colts in 2010, Phillips spray-painted the Saints' black and gold fleur de lis logo on his lawn. It didn't take long before curious neighbors and passers-by were knocking on his door, asking if he could paint their lawns. As a result, he earned a little extra spending money and brought smiles to a lot of fans' faces.

"I did pretty good for a couple years and I decided to introduce the lawn logo to the West Coast," said Phillips, a 43-year-old retired military serviceman. "People seem to love it."

Phillips said he has received several calls about the lawn logo. He only will paint for "diehard" fans, people who are hosting Super Bowl parties Sunday. Lee expects his shindig to draw about 50 friends, family and co-workers from his job as a warehouseman with Martin Brower in Stockton.

"The 49ers logo makes a perfect backdrop for anyone having a few people over," Phillips said. "That's how the idea came out. It complements the house."

As for the game, Lee expects the 49ers to win, of course.

"It's going to be a very hard-fought defensive game," he said. "I don't think it will be high-scoring. I think the defenses are going to show up. And of course, I think the 49ers are going to win. I think it's going to be a good Super Bowl."